This Animated Map Shows How Rapidly Shopping Malls Spread Across The US

But it's also nice to reminisce about the golden days when teens
would loiter away their Saturdays shopping and families would eat
together at the resident The Cheesecake Factory.

Sravani Vadlamani, a doctoral student in transportation
engineering at Arizona State, has created an animated map
(first found via The Washington Post) that
shows the boom of retail hubs throughout the 20th century.